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    System76’s highly anticipated COSMIC desktop environment written in Rust, continues to develop with the 5th alpha release, which is accompanied by new ISO images of the upcoming Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS distro.
  3. Calibre 7.24 Open-Source Ebook Manager Released with New Features and Bug Fixes
    The weekly Calibre updates continue and developer Kovid Goyal announced today the release and general availability of Calibre 7.24 as the latest stable version of this powerful, cross-platform, free, and open-source suite of e-book software.
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  5. GNU/Linux and Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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  7. today's howtos
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  8. Linux 6.6.71
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  9. Auto-cpufreq 2.5 Introduces Fedora 41 Support and Bug Fixes
    Auto-cpufreq 2.5 CPU speed and power optimizer for Linux introduces EPB support
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  11. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Now Works on the HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V Development Board
    Canonical, the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, announced today that they’ve partnered with SiFive and ESWIN Computing to enable Ubuntu 24.04 LTS on the HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V development board.
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  13. Web Apps Make Switching to Linux Much Easier
    If that's you considering Linux, then web apps are something you should look into
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  15. Windows TCO and Security Leftovers
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  20. Browsers: Tor Browser 14.0.4, Tor Year in Review, and Midori Browser 11.5
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  21. Best Free and Open Source Software
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  22. Linux Distributions Mostly Ubuntu or Debian Based
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  24. today's howtos
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  25. Games: Space Invaders, OrangePi Neo, and More
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  26. KDE: Snaps 24.12.1 Release, Kubuntu Plasma 5.27.12 Call for testers
    I have released more core24 snaps to –edge for your testing pleasure
  27. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed - Okay, but glory all be from the past
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  28. Stable kernels: Linux 6.12.9, Linux 6.6.70, Linux 6.1.124, Linux 5.15.176, Linux 5.10.233, and Linux 5.4.289
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  30. I rescued my dying 2017 MacBook Pro with Ubuntu and it works like a charm (mostly)
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